The news was relayed to the Philadelphia Inquirer by an unnamed aide to Rice, and later confirmed by her Chief of Staff. Rice is a faculty member at Stanford as well as a member of the 13-person committee that will decide the teams that play in the NCAA Football playoffs starting after the 2014 regular season.
I admire Penn State's ambition, but why would Condoleezza Rice want to leave what she's doing to preside over Penn State?